Extreme Molding in Watervliet needed to increase capacity in a very short time frame, so the company used Engel’s Fast Lane program to buy to buy the e-mac presses, with clamping forces of 85 and 110 tons.

“We received a new contract that required an increase to our LSR capacity — and quickly,” said Lynn Momrow-Zielinski, co-owner of Extreme Molding. The processor bought the 110-ton press at the end of 2016, and the 85-tonner in spring of this year.

Extreme Molding molds parts for customers in the markets of health care, consumer products pet products, at its 21,000-square-foot factory in Watervliet, near Troy, N.Y.

Co-owner Joanne Moon Duncan said company officials like the high precision, smaller footprint and ease of the robot interface with the e-mac.